COMMON MARKET: Grapes of Wrath

"A state of revolt reigns in the south
of France," warned Emmanuel Maffre-Bauge, president of the French Table
Wine Association. "There are grapes of wrath in the Midi." Not only
there. In the Mediterranean port of Sete, 30,000 irate French farmers
rioted, protesting imports of Italian wine. In the Sicilian town of
Marsala, schools were closed, anti-French demonstrations broke out in
public squares, and local unions called for a general strike of the
area's 20,000 workers. From Marseille to Perpignan near the Spanish
border, French growers, meanwhile, set up roadblocks of burning tires
to halt the influx of hated...